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Hopkins' "Harvey" Lands at Overture

Overture Films has announced a deal to produce and distribute Joel Hopkins' "Last Chance Harvey," starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, based on a script by Hopkins. The film, set to shoot in London on September, is described as a romantic drama about, "a man down on his luck (Hoffman) who finds an unlikely companion (Thompson) while in London attending his daughter's wedding." The film will be produced by Tim Perell of Process and Nicola Usborne (producer of Hopkins' "Jump Tomorrow," as well as "The Best Thief in the World") with Overture's Robert Kessel, EVP of Productions and Acquisitions, overseeing the project. Jawal Nga ("Forty Sha...

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iW BOT | "Golden Door" a Hit; "Crazy Love" Fails to Fill Seats; "Waitress" Keeps Rolling

The higher they come; the harder they fall. News of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," the Hollywood franchise of the moment, dropping a hefty 62% from its opening roll out with second weekend receipts at $43.2 million, speaks powerfully to the current Hollywood release model: terrific open...

REVIEW | Grand Dame: Olivier Dahan's "La Vie en rose"

Encompassing hardship and tragedy of near-mythic proportions, the details of Edith Piaf's life story seem spawned from literature and are so well-suited to cinematic adaptation they appear invented. Abandoned by her mother as a child and raised for a time by her grandmother in a brothel, only to be ...

Ottoman-Humping Gets the Silent Treatment